Jack Zatkowsky
Directing
Biography
Jack Zatkowsky is a filmmaker in New York City. Jack creates stories that blend between genres and styles, never staying in one lane. An experimentalist at heart, they always aim to craft stories that audiences can find themselves lost in. Their most well known films include Monstro (2024), Fable of Fey (2025), and Showstopper (2026).
Known For
A cargo-ship-piloting alien is on his usual livestock abduction route when an angry farmer sneaks aboard the ship disguised as a cow, with a burning desire for vengeance.
COW
Abraham Lincoln died in 1865, Archduke Franz Ferdinand died in 1914, JFK died in 1963 - All 49 years apart. This is the story of the time-traveling Bullet who killed them.
49
A dancer must battle a supernatural manifestation of their anxieties in order to achieve greatness.
The Muse
QP, a troubled young man with an affinity for lobotomies and finger puppets, confronts his own humanity after capturing his newest victim.
Zombie
A needy young man confronts years of parental manipulation when he discovers that his father has gotten plastic surgery to look exactly like him.
Before/After
After an elven thief is recruited to help a trio of adventurers search for a magical amulet, she must choose between the group's true, caring connection and her own desires of fortune and glory.
Fable of Fey
A man purchases a mysterious product that promises to change his perception of life... and himself.
Miracle Polish
A commercial for a local exorcism service gets hijacked by demonic forces.
X. Ercism's Exorcisms
A weary hitman— who must bash his own head with a hammer in order to enter a murderous state of parasomnia— is promised freedom from self-mutilation upon the completion of one last hit job.
HAMMERHEAD
In the year 2134, a world where all childhood activities are outlawed for anyone over the age of 6, Officer Cyprus McGillicuddy attempts to expose an illegal underground group of gameplayers and fun-havers. Meanwhile, a dejected young man named Derby Turpentine sits off to the side, who could very well set off a chain reaction to change the world entire...
The Inherent Nature of Human Possibility
Left at home by himself for a weekend, Jack Zatkowsky decides to film as many random moments as possible with little planning or thought. With tons of copyrighted music and emotional whiplash, the filmmaker slowly realizes that being alone is not what it's chalked up to be.
The Jack Variety Hour
A deceased horror actor is put to trial by manifestations of his former roles, debating whether his mediocre performances in life should allow him to rest in peace.
Monstro
A young woman is trapped in the clutches of a musical-obssesed serial killer, having to perform for her life to free herself from the perfection she is expected to achieve.
Showstopper
Jason's job interview is interrupted by a cruel fly.
A Fly Told Me to Go F*ck Myself
In 1957, Natasha Pritchard remotely monitors an alien-infested New Mexico town to get herself off of Death Row.